EXPLORING INDIA : From Kaziranga to the Himalayas to the desert of Jaisalmer to the backwaters of Allepey to the sun baked coral beaches of Lakshadweep....A first hand account of exploring this beautiful country.

Friday, June 29, 2007

Valley of Flowers : Plan A or Plan B

As part of my travel planning, I normally prepare more than one plan –like Plan A, Plan B, etc. I had set three options for my impending trip to the VOF. Of these, Plan A involves traveling with another family. But for want of a second family, I almost had to abort Plan-A and trigger Plan-B taht involves traveling alone. Besides slight increase in cost of the trip, it would be really boring to trek for 2 days all alone. Actually my childhood frend Shankar had to opt out of the trip for some personal reason. I narrated this story to another of my friend and colleague Chandan yesterday. On reading reviews and seeing photographs of VOF on the net, he almost immediately decided to go. A trip to VOF is really enticing and probably he did not want to miss this opportunity. Thus now I am back to Plan A.

Plan A involves traveling from Delhi by a big vehicle like Tavera or Qualis. Plan B was to travel by train to Dehradun and then start from there by a small vehicle like Indica. In both cases my expenditure on traveling would have been around 9000 rupees for this 7 day trip.

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